Thoughtrave is the immediate and most detailed archive of Lady Gaga’s emotional, intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual evolution, a reclaiming of her art (and humanity) from within the center of ...her celebrity during one of the most difficult transitions of her career: Summer 2013–Fall 2014. I don’t like being used to make money. I feel sad when I am overworked and that I just become a money making machine and that my passion and my creativity take a backseat. That makes me unhappy. So, what did I do? I started to say no. Not doing that. I don’t want to do that. I’m not taking that picture. Not going to that event. Not standing by that because that’s not what I stand for. Thoughtrave marks perhaps the most important (and unconditional, unpublished, unencumbered) insights into the music industry, as well as into the personal battles that accompanied her transition from Stefani to Gaga. “It’s one of those rare moments in life when you ask a question of someone you’ve admired for many years and receive the most honest of answers leading both people into a relationship that was and remains one of the most important of my life,” says Baum, a professor, producer, composer, writer, editor, and activist for adjunct professors. As Baum explains to Stefani in one of the many interviews published here for the first time, It’s uncanny for me to look back at 2008–2011 — when I was intensely meditating on the problem “Why is there any being at all?” — to find evidence of your intervention here with me…to find you, back then…before I knew you. It was almost as if I was playing the Bruce Willis character in Twelve Monkeys, overshooting my mark in time/space, aiming for this particular conversation but speaking through Ereignis (life gives) to a moment I (and many others) call “headphones on.”
The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19 BITLER, MARIANNE P.; HOYNES, HILARY W.; SCHANZENBACH, DIANE WHITMORE
Brookings papers on economic activity,
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The COVID-19 crisis has led to spiking unemployment rates with disproportionate impacts on low-income families. School and child-care center closures have also meant lost free and reduced-price ...school meals. Food prices have increased sharply, leading to reduced purchasing power for families with limited income. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act constituted a robust response, including expansions to unemployment insurance (expansions in eligibility and a $600 per week supplement), a onetime payment of $1,200 per adult and $500 per dependent, an increase in SNAP payments, and the launch of the Pandemic EBT program to replace lost school meals. Despite these efforts, real-time data show significant distress—notably, food insecurity rates have increased almost three times over the pre-COVID-19 rates and food pantry use has also spiked. In this paper, we explore why there is so much unmet need despite a robust policy response. We provide evidence for three explanations: (1) timing—relief came with a substantial delay, due to overwhelmed unemployment insurance (UI) systems and the need to implement new programs; (2) magnitude—payments outside UI are modest; and (3) coverage gaps—access is lower for some groups, and other groups are statutorily excluded.
Sulfides (compounds containing C-S-C bond) are an important class of organic compounds and are of great importance due to their many biological properties and their valuable application in various ...areas including industrial, pharmaceutical and agricultural chemistry. Given the importance of these compounds, research on the synthesis of sulfides is always an important challenge and topic in organic synthesis. Amongst different approaches, the straightforward deoxygenation of sulfoxides to sulfides has attracted profound attention. During the last decade, reducing systems for the reduction of sulfoxides to sulfides have been reported in the literature of many publications. The present review focuses on the methods reported for the straightforward deoxygenation of sulfoxides to sulfides over the last decade (2011-2020).
Based on the data of listed small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) from 2011 to 2020, this paper studies the effects of fintech on the financing constraints of SMEs in China. The results denote ...that fintech can significantly ease financing constraints of SMEs; with a 1% increase in fintech, the financing constraints of SMEs decrease by 0.0767%. The intermediary mechanism analysis illustrates that fintech can ease the financing constraints of SMEs by alleviating financial industry concentration and information asymmetry. Besides, regions with a higher degree of marketization and industries with relatively free competition are both more conducive to fintech alleviating the financing constraints of SMEs.
In 2010, the parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 with the mission of halting biodiversity loss and enhance the benefits it ...provides to people. The 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets (Aichi Targets), which are included in the Strategic Plan, are organized under five Strategic Goals, and provide coherent guidance on how to achieve it. Halfway through the Strategic Plan, it is time to prioritize actions in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for the Aichi Targets in 2020. Actions to achieve one target may influence other targets (downstream interactions); in turn a target may be influenced by actions taken to attain other targets (upstream interactions). We explore the interactions among targets and the time-lags between implemented measures and desired outcomes to develop a framework that can reduce the overall burden associated with the implementation of the Strategic Plan. We identified the targets addressing the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss and the targets aimed at enhancing the implementation of the Strategic Plan as having the highest level of downstream interactions. Targets aimed at improving the status of biodiversity and safeguarding ecosystems followed by targets aimed at reducing the direct pressures on biodiversity and enhancing the benefits to all from biodiversity and ecosystem services, were identified as having the highest levels of upstream interactions. Perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of the Strategic Plan is the need to balance actions for its long-term sustainability with the need for urgent actions to halt biodiversity loss.
Im Jahre 2010 fasste die Biodiversitäts-Konvention einen Beschluss zum Schutz der Biodiversität für die Dekade 2011–2020. Das primäre Ziel dieses Strategischen Plans ist es, den Verlust von Biodiversität zu reduzieren, sowie ihre enorme Bedeutung für die Menschen zu veranschaulichen. In diesen Strategischen Plan sind die “20 Aichi – Ziele” integriert, die in fünf Kernziele kategorisiert sind und als Leitfaden zur Realisierung der Aichi-Ziele dienen. Im Rahmen des Strategieplans ist es an der Zeit die Maßnahmen zu priorisieren, welche maximale Erfolge zum Erreichen der “20 Aichi–Ziele” bis 2020 versprechen. Dabei muss betrachtet werden, dass bestimmte Maßnahmen zur Zielführung möglicherweise andere Ziele beeinflussen (s.g. abwärts gerichtete Interaktionen=“downstream interactions”); im Gegensatz dazu können Ziele wiederum die Maßnahmen beeinflussen (s.g. aufwärts gerichtete Interaktionen=“upstream interactions”).
Wir untersuchten die Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Kernzielen und den Zeitintervallen, zwischen den durchgeführten Maßnahmen und dem Eintreten der gewünschten Ergebnisse. Diese Untersuchungen sind notwendig, um die wichtigsten Maßnahmen mit den höchsten Effekten innerhalb aller Ziele zu identifizieren. Dabei identifizierten wir Ziele, welche sich primär mit den Ursachen des Rückgangs biologischer Vielfalt beschäftigen und Ziele, in deren Fokus die Verfolgung des Strategischen Plans steht, als hochgradig abwärts gerichtete Interaktionen. Ziele, die sich vornehmlich mit der Sicherung von Ökosystemen zur Verbesserung der biologischen Vielfalt beschäftigen, gefolgt von denen, deren Schwerpunkt auf der Reduktion von direkten Belastungen auf biologische Vielfalt liegt, und jene, die aufzeigen, welchen Mehrwert biologische Vielfalt und Ökosystemleistungen für alle bieten, weisen die höchsten aufwärts gerichteten Interaktionen auf. Einer der schwierigsten Aspekte bei der Umsetzung des strategischen Plans ist die Notwendigkeit einer Balance zwischen Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung einer langfristigen Nachhaltigkeit und der Umsetzung von notwendigen kurzfristigen Sofortmaßnahmen zu finden, welche den Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt aufhalten.
This study unfolds the CEO attributes, stock liquidity, and firms' performance nexus, drawing from an individual's personality attributes who hold the highest managerial positions. The fixed‐effect ...panel regression method is employed using nonfinancial firms listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange from 2011 to 2020. Significantly, CEOs' age, tenure, and ownership are positively associated with stock liquidity and firms' performance. Additionally, stock liquidity partially mediates the said nexus. This study provides new insights which confirm the theoretical implications of upper echelons theory which means specific attributes of an individual i.e., CEO can cause better performance of a firm.
Digital infrastructure considers the advantages of traditional infrastructure and high‐tech information technology and can optimize the allocation of green resources in the service industry to a ...large extent. Based on the calculation of the level of digital infrastructure in 30 provinces and cities in China from 2011 to 2020, this study analyzes the impact of digital infrastructure on the resource allocation efficiency of the service industry from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The study found that digital infrastructure can improve the efficiency of green resource allocation in the service industry; however, at the subdivision level, only its operation dimension has a significant and positive impact on the efficiency of green resource allocation in the service industry, and the improvement effect of the construction dimension is insignificant. Analyzing the mechanism of action shows that digital infrastructure can indirectly optimize the allocation of green resources in the service industry by deepening the degree of informatization and improving the level of innovation. Further analysis shows that the impact of digital infrastructure on the efficiency of green resource allocation in the service industry presents a complex nonlinear trend and regional heterogeneity. The research conclusions provide a policy reference for optimizing the allocation of green resources in the service industry and promoting high‐quality economic growth under the background of digital infrastructure.
Differences in managerial expertise and political incentives associated with local government form may affect local government spending levels as well as the allocation of resources. This paper ...explores the latter possibility by estimating how the distribution of resources in council‐manager and mayor‐council municipalities responds to a positive fiscal shock resulting from the abolition of a municipality's court. We find that court abolition has a distinct effect on the allocation of resources in council‐manager and mayor‐council governments. As expected, mayor‐council municipalities allocate the marginal dollar to policing. However, council‐manager municipalities react to court closure by reducing police expenditures over the long‐term.
Applications For Practice
1.Municipal court abolition has a distinct effect on the allocation of resources in council‐manager and mayor‐council governments.
2.Governments with a popularly elected leader of the executive branch (mayor) devote the marginal dollar to policing. This is not true of governments without a mayor.
3.Further research is needed to better understand how political incentives (local government form) and rules governing police‐generated revenue distribution (municipal courts) interact to (dis)incentivize investment in policing and specific revenue‐generating activities.
4.Understanding how the incentive structures created by local government institutions affect police funding levels is key for scholars and practitioners interested in police reform.
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